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There's an extraneous word in the title of the thriller "The Girl is in Trouble." The moment we meet the sexy, calculating Swede Signe (Alicja Bachleda), we know the girl IS trouble. But co-writer/director Julius Onah's clever genre film never lets us off the hook with a simple femme fatale moment. Because we've seen, in the film's opening, what she saw a man, covered in blood, strangling another man. It's a scene Signe had the presence of mind to record on her cell phone. And even that act suggests that this blunt blonde, on the run, ready to hide out in the bed of a casual pick-up if need be, is playing the angles, leaning on her assets maybe to...

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